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"Sustainable development is becoming a way of life slightly more each day. I welcome this resolution, which calls on the European Union to play a leading role in the June 2012 negotiations in Rio. However, I found one point in the motion for a resolution to be particularly concerning. Whereas Article 194 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU stipulates that the choice of ‘energy mix’ is a national competence, the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance wanted the EU suddenly to call on the entire world to phase out nuclear power … even though some EU countries produce it and others consume large quantities of it! What right does the European Parliament have to preach in this way? Let us not forget that nuclear energy directly contributes to sustainable development by emitting very little CO
. I am therefore delighted that the amendment that we tabled calling for ‘the highest level of nuclear safety’ and for this requirement to be promoted at international level has been adopted by a very large majority, and that the idea of a general phasing out of nuclear energy has, on the contrary, been rejected. What we need, in fact, are higher safety standards that are monitored in a more effective and completely transparent way."@en1
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